120 years since the establishment of the Entente Cordiale - past lives on

The British-French pact called the Entente Cordiale was at the beginning of the 20th century 1 of the foundations of the formation of balance on the European continent. The increasing German Empire, which previously managed to smash specified powers as Austria-Hungary in the war for domination in the German Union (then inactive as the Kingdom of Prussia itself), and then in the war with France, which showed that now it is Berlin that is increasing into the strongest player on the old continent.